[ZPT] Web Design with ZPT

[Joseph Griffin]

Hello Christian,
Sounds like tcm2sql would capture the design for the database. You also 
need a script generator for ZPT. For instance, the login page would 
need ZPT statements to wrap a ZSQL method that queries the database. 
What would be nice is to have a integrated package that allows to 
select the database (postgresql, mysql, ZODB) and generate the scripts 
you need. The code should be structured to allow iterative design. It 
would take a while to complete, but once it's done, you really have a 
powerful tool that's productive (managers like to hear things like 
that). Joseph





> On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 05:00:37PM -0600, Joseph Griffin wrote:
> > Thanks again for the response Joel,
> > My background has been mostly with Microsoft. When I ran across 
Zope, I was
> > truly impressed with the idea of an object oriented website. Since 
it's
> > free, it's gets double bonus points from me. What I have learned in 
software
> > development is that the pros (that is, those persons whose sole 
interest is
> > making money) go 10 miles out of their way to streamline their 
efforts into
> > a boring repeatable pattern than lowers overall risk. Zope, in my 
opinon, is
> > ripe for a deployment tool in the form of a database/python/ZPT 
script
> > generator. This assumes that the Zope/ZServer/ZODB etc... has stable
> > interfaces. After all, Zope is database friendly, so once a 
datamodel is
> > defined, you could build the initial Zope website from the data 
model along
> > (something like Znolk, but on a much larger scale). Database 
scripts would
> > build the tables, python scripts could do the framework 
installation and ZPT
> > would present the data. The whole install could be automated to the 
point of
> > establishing a complete web layout is less than a week. This type 
of code
> > generation has been done by Promatix for Visual FoxPro 
(www.promatrix.com),
> > Microsoft Access,SQL Server,Oracle,Sybase, and DB2 using VBExpress
> > (www.vbexpress.com).
> 
> One part of that is already available (not directly related to zope):
> 
> Generating SQL from visualized Diagrams for the open source database
> postgresql: tcm2sql. TCM is a toolkit for conceptual modelling, and
> tcm2sql allows you to build the sql scripts for that ... is that what 
you
> are searching? then take a look at www.gocept.com/opensource
> 
> Greetings
> 
> Christian
> 
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